eye-watering vs stinking

eye-watering

adj
  • Having an extremely bad odour. 

  • So expensive that (figuratively) it would make one's eyes water. 

  • Of a shocking or surprising nature. 

  • Having an odour, vapours or smoke which causes irritation to the eyes. 

stinking

adj
  • Having a pungent smell. 

  • An intensifier, a hypallage. 

  • Very bad and undesirable. 

noun
  • The emission of a foul smell. 

How often have the words eye-watering and stinking occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )